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Wet · Dazey and the Scouts

EXERCISE 6 OF 58
Groove C -- Part C
67 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART T
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKITFL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wet on drums

126 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24, ride through bars 25-47 and snare through bars 48-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 36-38, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---x-----------x-------|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Wet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 41, 45, 48 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-20 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Wet?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Wet hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wet?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 41, 45, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED